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Update: Woman charged with attempted murder in bail court

A 46-year-old Brantford woman appeared in bail court Thursday morning and was charged with the attempted murder of two young relatives.

She remained quiet and composed as she was whisked in and out of the court at the Ontario Court Thursday morning.

She remains in custody and will return to court next Tuesday for a video appearance.

The Expositor is choosing not to name the woman.

City police said they would not release the name of the accused or any information regarding the victims in order to protect their identity. A publication ban was placed on the woman’s bail hearings, so that information revealed in the court cannot be published.

Both the woman and children were taken to Brantford General Hospital Wednesday after police responded to an 8 a.m. disturbance at the home on Edith Monture Avenue.

The woman was held in custody after receiving treatment.

Neighbours say they are shocked.

“The mother was very friendly and was always driving the children to school or to hockey,” said the neighbour, who asked not to be identified.

“Sometimes you can hear people fighting but not that family. The boys were always helpful, bringing in groceries, and the father is kind and polite.”

The family home where the crime took place is a large, two-storey house with double entrance doors and a hockey net stretched across the garage entrance, set in an affluent new neighbourhood.

The incident has left neighbours in disbelief.

“What could have happened?”

Other neighbours said the air was filled with the sounds of screaming police sirens on Wednesday morning.

Brantford Police called in their major crime unit and forensics identification unit, blocking the road temporarily and remaining at the house all day.

While the victims share the same last name as the accused woman, Brantford Police Const. Nat Laing said the police are choosing not to identify the relation of the three people involved in the disturbance, except to say they are relatives.

Laing also declined to say whether there were weapons involved in the injuries.